I was driving to work this morning...sitting at a red light and my back windshield just shattered. It was LOUD...scared the piss out of me. I know I wasn't shot at and I wasn't hit. It had to be the temperature. Here in Pittsburgh it was about 28 degrees. I drove about 1 mile and put my rear defrost on and 3 minutes later it shattered.

Insurance took care of it but it would have been about a grand.

this ever happened to anyone?

I was driving my Nissan Pathfinder.

 

Happened to one of my dads cars once. Not sure what happen, something about a cold day and a dark car in the sun had something to do with it.

 

It happened to my 325i the heating element went nuts...

 

Never an issue when the back windows were plastic

 

*<'02s ftw!

 

lol That's scary. I'd think that it was a bullet.

 

that happened to me once we though it was just random then when we cleaned out the car we found a golf ball. hmmm.

 

Pretty sure that its the "rapid" change in temperature. Maybe turning the defroster on heats it up too quickly? Kind of like the reverse effect where you boil water in a glass container and you drop it into a bucket filled with ice water but not as drastic.

 

hahaha